- Bookseller: The Kelmscott Bookshop
- Seller Inventory #: 19134
- Format: Hard Cover.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: William Morrow and Company,
- Place: New York:
- Date published: 1963.
Book Description
New York:: William Morrow and Company,, 1963.. Hard Cover.. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Orange paper covered boards with black title to spine. Slight roll to spine. Minor wear to edges of boards. Clean, bright interior with tight binding. Black dust jacket with red title to spine. Minor wear to edges of jacket and minor rubbing to rear panel. Jacket is price-clipped. 220 pages. LIT/022107. Very Good Plus in Very Good Plus dj.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
spine : The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf. Also known as the back.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
price-clipped : The portion of the dust jacket flap where the publisher prints the suggested price has been cut away. Usually this is a clean 1-2" diagonal cut made with scissors.
